Camera Review Archives - The Noisy Shutter

Classic Camera Review: Canon A-1

October 27, 2024 (October 27, 2024) BSmith

“I mean, Led Zeppelin didn’t write tunes that everyone liked…They left that to the Bee Gees.”
Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers), Wayne’s World

Classic Camera Review: Pentax P30t

September 4, 2024 BSmith

“Handsome is as handsome does.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien

Classic Camera Review: Canon EOS Elan 7E

June 22, 2024 BSmith

“Eos rose from her bed, where she lay by haughty Tithonos, to carry her light to men and to immortals.”
-Homer, Iliad 11. 1 ff (trans. Lattimore)

Classic Camera Review: Minolta X-7A

May 27, 2024 BSmith

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-2n

May 6, 2024 BSmith

“The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.”
― Suzy Kassem

Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic ES II

January 17, 2024 (January 17, 2024) BSmith

“After all, the thing that looks most ordinary might be the thing that leads you to victory.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Classic Camera Review: Nikon N90s

December 10, 2023 (December 10, 2023) BSmith

“If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.”
– Paul Arden

Classic Camera Review: Rolleiflex MX-EVS

November 3, 2023 (November 3, 2023) BSmith

“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic F

September 4, 2023 BSmith

“Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary.”
― Marius Vieth

Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-4

July 22, 2023 BSmith

“The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One’s immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.”
-Homer

Classic Camera Review: Canon FTb QL

June 21, 2023 (August 6, 2023) BSmith

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
-Aaron Siskind